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Look on the consumer website TripAdvisor for London restaurant recommendations, as many visitors do, and you will find that the number one, out of 11,038 restaurants reviewed, is Gordon Ramsay’s Petrus, in Knightsbridge.

Petrus gets rave reviews, despite being on the pricey side, at £65 per person for three courses in the evening, without drinks and service. The site’s third recommendation, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, is even more expensive, at £95 for three courses.

TripAdvisor’s number two recommendation, though, for the past few weeks at least, has been not quite so dear. In fact, it turns out to be a Turkish restaurant, in the Grand Parade in Green Lanes, at the end of my road in Harringay — Gokyuzu. A statistical blip, maybe? A freak result?

Not at all. This place really does offer the best value eating out I know anywhere in London — wonderfully delicious Turkish food for amazingly low prices, £4.50 a starter, around £9-£10 for a giant main course. Last week, the Regency Café in Westminster, where eggs Benedict cost just £4, was voted London’s fifth best eating place by more than one million users of Yelp, another review website. Such places make everywhere else, even gastropubs or noodle bars, suddenly start to feel sharply overpriced.

I only discovered Gokyuzu when we began house-hunting in this area at the start of last year. The pleasure of having lunch there was a big draw every time we pitched up to trek around the estate agents. Even now, when we can go any time, the appeal hasn’t dimmed.

It feels like such a generous meal. You are always immediately given some good warm flatbread and a yoghurt and cucumber dip and then a huge, strikingly fresh rough-chopped salad — strong rocket, cucumber, red onion, red cabbage, coarse-grated carrot, scattered with sumac, dressed with oil and served with lemon. Then there’s a range of pide cooked in a wood-fired oven — thin Turkish pizza lookalikes, often topped with minced lamb and different vegetables. Or there are brilliant charcoal grills served with rice and salad — two quail for £10.50, for example, or minced lamb adana kebab, £7 for a small one, £9.90 for large. The difficulty is in not eating too much. The “platters to share” are immense — they reckon one that features lamb shish, chicken shish, lamb ribs, adana shish, chicken wings, chicken doner and lamb doner with salad and rice and bulgur wheat for £25.50 is for two to three people to share. Two to three giants, perhaps.

Gokyuzu was founded in 1999 by Hassan Yavuz, a farmer from Maras in central Turkey. It is now run by his 31-year-old son, Veysel Yavuz, and a couple of years ago expanded into “double-shop” premises and is still constantly being improved. Nonetheless, it is more or less continuously full these days, with locals and visitors queuing for tables.

But that’s fine, because this whole patch of Green Lanes — effectively, Little Turkey — is full of other Turkish restaurants that are just as good, sometimes cheaper, sometimes better in different ways, and a little wander down the street will soon offer an appealing alternative, not yet quite so trumpeted on TripAdvisor. Their comparative merits can be found enthusiastically debated on harringayonline.com, the excellent local website.

Antepliler (46 Grand Parade) has dimmer lighting, lower chairs and slightly spicier cooking, with particularly good pide made in a huge clay oven and fabulously good crisp lahmacun (only £1.50!) People from Gaziantep say it is just as good as anywhere there.

In the window of Hala (29 Grand Parade), a smaller, more traditional restaurant, you can see women assiduously rolling out pastry to make gözleme, delicious pastries stuffed with spinach, mince, cheese or potato. The manti — meat dumplings — here are the best, too.

Selale (1-2 Salisbury Promenade, Green Lanes) has recently expanded into one particularly large and canteen-like room with some garish decorations — but the welcome and food are the equal of anywhere in Green Lanes. Such generous samples of bread and dips — hummus, tzatziki etc — are brought to the table free, making it unnecessary to have any other starter, and the main courses — excellent chicken sarma beyti, say, for £9 — are elegantly presented as well as in whopping portions. The owner, one Harringayonline commenter rightly observes, resembles a Turkish Robert De Niro…

Flame (551 Green Lanes) is much smaller, slightly pricier and has a rather more ambitious menu with plenty of seafood, some of it on display in the front window. Devran (485-487 Green Lanes) is big, always bustling and very good value, with a longer menu than most, venturing into specialities such as Albanian liver and lamb sweetbreads, as well as catering better for vegetarians than many Turkish restaurants.

Diyarbakir, 69 Green Lanes, (halal, soft drinks only) small, packed and selling out some of its fresh produce each day, is rated by many Turkish customers as serving the very best food in the area. For some reason, I haven’t tried it yet — but I will, I will.

There are some Harringay residents who find it a bit boring that this whole strip has been taken over by Turkish restaurants — although it’s obviously multicultural in terms of London as a whole, for these few hundred yards it’s pretty much a monoculture. They’ve been spoiled for choice, I can only conclude. To live near so many amazingly good and cheap restaurants is a non-stop treat. Who needs Gordon Ramsay?